Dessert
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This PB&J Cookie Is Everything You Loved About Being a Kid
Occupying the space between a classic thumbprint cookie and a peanut butter blossom, these peanut butter and jelly thumbprint cookies are a light, just-sweet-enough treat.
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This Classic Southern Lemon Pie Gets Crunch—and Charm—From a Saltine Crust
This easy Southern dessert features a salty cracker crust, creamy citrus filling, and whipped cream topping—it's perfect for warm weather and made with pantry staples.
Easy Homemade Ice Cream
This easy vanilla ice cream doesn’t contain egg yolks as a lot of ice cream recipes do. Instead, it relies on cream cheese to provide texture, stability and scoopability. The cream cheese adds a brightness to the finished ice cream and helps any flavor you add to it shine. While it’s excellent on its own, this ice cream also makes a great base for building almost any flavor you can imagine, from strawberry cheesecake to peanut butter pie.
Peanut Butter Pie Ice Cream
Chocolate and peanut butter are already a perfect match. This ice cream builds on that pairing and brings in the cream cheese and chocolate cookie crust of a peanut butter pie. The easy egg-free base is made with both cream cheese and peanut butter, so it has a lighter texture and allows the flavors to shine. Once the ice cream is churned, incorporating bits of cookie (the crust) and a ripple of a chocolate-peanut butter hard shell (the topping) gets you the rest of the way to peanut butter pie. But feel free to experiment with other mix-ins and swirls of your own creation. And the peanut butter ice cream is just as delicious on its own.
Carlota de Limón (Lime Icebox Cake)
Carlota de limón is an iconic Mexican icebox cake that transforms just four ingredients into something greater than the sum of its parts. This refreshing dessert combines tart lime juice with creamy condensed milk between crisp cookie layers that become moist as the cake chills. Synonymous with asadas (cookouts) and family gatherings, it is traditionally served directly from the dish in which it’s assembled, making it a great portable dessert to bring to your next potluck. Maria cookies are a staple in Latino grocery stores and bodegas and are increasingly available at any supermarket. Vanilla wafers (like Nilla) work as a substitute, though they absorb less liquid at first than the Maria cookies do, resulting in a more textured, but still delicious, bite.
No-Bake Lime and Speculoos Cake
The caramel-y, gently spiced flavor and crisp texture of Biscoff speculoos cookies make them a great choice for icebox cakes. As the cookies chill in the refrigerator between layers of lime cream, they meld and soften, resulting in a sliceable dessert reminiscent of a frosted cake. The whipped cream layer includes cream cheese and sweetened condensed milk to sweeten and stabilize the cream, while lime zest and juice add a bright, citrusy contrast.
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This Easy Peaches and Cream Dessert Is Summer in a Slice
This easy sheet-pan crêpe roll delivers the layered elegance of a crêpe cake without the fuss. Rolled with roasted peach purée and whipped cream cheese, it's the ultimate make-ahead summer dessert: light, refreshing, and perfect for slicing.
White Chocolate Raspberry Cookies
In this chewy, tender cookie, from the Brooklyn-based baker Autumn Moultrie, the raspberry flavor is neon-bright, thanks to the smart use of freeze-dried raspberries to balance the creamy, often overly sweet white chocolate. A higher ratio of raspberry to white chocolate (which is to say, not too much white chocolate) provides just the right seesawing of tartness to sweetness, fruitiness to creaminess, the joyful interplay that makes these two ingredients play so nicely together. At her bakery Dolly’s Coffee Shop, which Ms. Moultrie runs with her business partner, Brian Villanueva, Ms. Moultrie makes the cookies as big as your face. Home bakers can adjust the size according to their preferences; the bake time will stay the same.
Sweet and Salty Frozen Grapes
This snack draws on the South Asian and Mexican culinary traditions of serving ice-cold fruit seasoned with spices and salt. Here, grapes get tossed in a punchy combination of lemon juice, lemon zest, chile flakes, sugar and salt, then frozen solid for a refreshing treat. The lemon zest is optional, but the flecks add a bright, citrusy note.
Fresas con Crema (Strawberries and Cream)
This classic Mexican dessert features fresh strawberries swimming in sweetened cream that tastes like melted ice cream. It's summer in a cup! Popular throughout Mexico and at Mexican celebrations, fresas con crema is a crowd-pleasing dessert that’s refreshing on a hot summer day and comes together in just 20 minutes. Serve half-portions to yield 8 servings, or double the recipe to generously serve a crowd. Fresas con crema will keep in the refrigerator for up to four days; the chill will also thicken the cream slightly. Try this same cream mixture with other summer fruit like raspberries, golden berries, blueberries, or sweet or tart cherries.
Oreo Icebox Cake
This simple, no-bake dessert is perfect for any chocolate lover. Chocolate sandwich cookies are enrobed in fluffy whipped cream enriched with a bit of vanilla and sugar. The whipped cream has a generous amount of cream cheese, which helps balance the sweetness of the cookies with a little tang. The cake requires very little prep and a long chill time, which makes it perfect for a party. You can assemble the entire thing the day you plan to serve it, or even two days before the celebration. You can make this in just about any 2-quart dish with a flat bottom; an 8-inch square pan or 9-inch round pan works perfectly.
Cookies and Cream Icebox Cake
This simple, no-bake dessert is perfect for any chocolate lover. Chocolate sandwich cookies are enrobed in fluffy whipped cream enriched with a bit of vanilla and sugar. The whipped cream has a generous amount of cream cheese, which helps balance the sweetness of the cookies with a little tang. The cake requires very little prep and a long chill time, which makes it perfect for a party. You can assemble the entire thing the day you plan to serve it, or even two days before the celebration. You can make this in just about any 2-quart dish with a flat bottom; an 8-inch square pan or 9-inch round pan works perfectly.
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The Creamy, Coconutty Filipino Dessert Salad You'll Want All Summer Long
A creamy and refreshing fruit salad made with pandan jelly and coconut cream.
Peach Ricotta Cake
Peaches are one of the very best things about summer, and this cake celebrates them two ways, with chopped pieces folded into the batter and wedges fanned out to decorate the top. The batter is enriched with ricotta for moisture and a generous amount of lemon zest for brightness. This cake is beautiful enough to serve at a party and can be prepared and baked in less than an hour. If fresh peaches aren't looking good at your market, you can substitute the same weight of any other fresh stone fruit. (If summer fruit isn't available, you can even use a 12-ounce package of frozen sliced peaches; just be sure to thaw the slices fully and pat them dry before adding them to the batter.)
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S'mores Meet Rice Krispies Treats in This Chocolatey, Gooey Mash-Up
These no-bake s'mores bars combine charred marshmallows, dark chocolate, and graham cereal for a chewy, gooey treat—no campfire needed.
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This Peach Crisp Is Everything You Love About Summer in One Bite
With a jammy filling of vanilla-scented peaches beneath a crunchy topping of whole-wheat flour, oats, and toasted pecans, this peach crisp tastes like the best of summer.
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This Zesty, No-Bake Dessert Is Tangy, Creamy, and Totally Irresistible
Bolis de Pay de Limón are creamy, tart ice pops with vanilla cookie crumbs swirled in to emulate classic key lime pie.
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S'mores Who? These Smoky Brownies Are Your New Campfire Star
This smoked ancho skillet brownie is baked on the grill, giving it a light smoky flavor that pairs perfectly with a hint of spice from ground ancho chiles.
Heirloom Tomato Sorbet
This tangy sorbet transforms peak-season heirloom tomatoes into a quenching savory-sweet treat. Flavorful and refreshing, it’s the platonic ideal of what summer sorbet should be. Reminiscent of a sweet gazpacho, the base comes together quickly: Add the tomatoes, sugar, water, lemon and a pinch of salt to a blender; purée the mixture until smooth; then pass it through a fine sieve directly into an ice cream maker. (No ice cream maker? This base makes an excellent granita; see Tip.) The quality of your sorbet or granita directly reflects your tomatoes, so opt for the ripest, most fragrant ones you can find.
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The Ukrainian Dumpling That’s Nourished Generations
Enjoy these cherry varenyky with a dollop of smetana (a Ukrainian sour cream) and plenty of melted butter.
Lemon Poppy Seed Bars
These curd-filled treats split the difference between lemon bars and lemon poppy seed cake, with a shortbread-like crust and crumbly streusel topping studded with poppy seeds. If you don’t feel like making homemade lemon curd, store-bought works perfectly, or substitute thick fruit jam or marmalade.
Apple and Plum Croustade (Croustade aux Pommes et Prunes)
Rustic is best when you are trying to make the most of your high-season fruit. Rolling up your sleeves and getting down to what suits the fruit — like a simple crust around lightly sweetened fruit — seems to be the call of the season for bakers who don’t want to mess with a good thing. This croustade is that dish, the one that keeps things easy. A classic French double layer pie, croustade is worth heating up your kitchen on a hot summer’s day and does not disappoint in its beautiful simplicity. The flaky crust holds the sweet-tart fruit and balances it perfectly with its sparkling sugar topping. You might also want to embrace the croustade’s rustic nature and simply serve it with a dollop of crème fraîche, but lightly sweetened whipped cream, crème anglaise or a scoop of speckled vanilla bean ice cream are also perfect additions. This French classic is a hit at any table, bien sûr.
No-Bake Peaches and Cream Cake
Like tiramisù, this simple-to-assemble dessert uses store-bought Italian ladyfingers available at many supermarkets. Made with fresh peaches and brandy, it’s a creamy, boozy, fruity delight that’s a perfect end to a summer meal. It’s also easily made without ever turning on the oven, just waiting in the fridge until ready to serve. If desired, sprinkle with toasted chopped almonds or pistachios just before serving.
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Frozen Aperol Spritz? Yes, and It’s Even Better Than the Cocktail
Made with Prosecco, Aperol, club soda, and a touch of lemon and orange juice, this refreshing granita is a fun spin on Aperol spritz, the classic Italian aperitivo.